Georgia College students headed to the new Wellness and Recreation Center at West Campus on Monday, Jan. 23 to kick off the intramural Spring season, this year bringing several new additions to intramural sports.
In addition to the traditional sports such as flag football, basketball, softball and dodgeball, RecSports has added volleyball, indoor soccer and inner tube water polo to the list of options. While most students are familiar with volleyball and indoor soccer, inner tube water polo is a new concept to grasp.
?It sounds really hard but really interesting,? junior nursing major Stephanie Hedlund said. ?It sounds like it would be fun to watch.?WRC?s new amenities, such as indoor courts and a pool, allow more room for sports that would be difficult to play elsewhere, which is why these new intramural sports have not been possible to have at GC before this year.
Junior mass communication major Allison LeFevre is taking full advantage of the novel opportunities presented this year by the new WRC.
?I love all of the new sports options they have for this semester because of the new Wellness Center,? said LeFevre, who is a member of coed soccer?s ?Impact?, coed volleyball?s ?Orville Ready Blockers,? women?s basketball?s ?The Dream Team? and women?s dodgeball?s ?The Dream Team.?
The first of the new sports to be put to the test was indoor soccer. It was a rousing start to the season as ?We Paid the Ref$? beat ?What?s Life Wit?? 17-3.
Volleyball wasn?t played until Tuesday, but it also started with a bang as ?Our Tip Is Too Big? won against ?Rec N Balls?.
Inner tube water polo began Wednesday as the ?Looney Tubes? secured a win over ?Tubular? while testing out the WRC?s new pool.
Everyone has his or her favorite sport, and, even with the new selection, many students still prefer to stick with their original favorite choices. Junior education major Katie Diagostino, who is also a member of ?The Dream Team? prefers girl?s dodgeball over the new sports because she loves the members of her team. ?The Dream Team? showed what it?s made of Tuesday as it dominated its first game against ?Gamma Sigma Sigma? 13-0.
?Dodgeball is definitely my favorite intramural sport to play,? Diagostino said. ?I have an awesome team that is not only athletic but also just fun to be around.?
While many of the new sports and some of the old ones are played on West Campus, the Centennial Center also hosts many of the intramural events, so it is not forgotten in the new transition. Teams like ?Victor?s Secret,? ?The Grapists? and ?Dumbledore?s Army? all utilized their space in the Centennial Center to win their intramural games.
?There are a lot of challenges that come with having 190 combined teams sign up for five intramural sports compared to 135 and two last year,? Coordinator of Recreational Sports Bert Rosenberger said. ?The major challenges have been scheduling the games and cross training over 50 student employees. So far our student staff has been up to the challenge, and the first week of new and previously played sports has been great.?
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